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Spacey, What is it with your obsession with nuclear? We would need one just to power the desal plant to provide the freshwater needed to cool the nuclear plant. Seems pretty self defeating and would make it the most expensive water and power ever created. Why not just mine asteroids to get the water? About as useful. We do not need to desalinate water, we need to stop wasting water on stupid things like cotton when people can't get water to drink or grow food. And the amount used by coal mining is obscene. Even simply recycling water and stopping industry from polluting the rainwater that falls, would solve our water needs. But no that would be sensible to collect the water that comes from the sky. But I get a feeling you like global warming as you might get a banana crop.

Yes, they sound good but not as good as a Guzzi Le mans with reverse cones. That can wake the dead and make em dance the jig. And from experience the Ducati sound on the over run can be followed by the sound of complete engine and gearbox destruction. And naturally the slightly quieter scream in the helmet as the rear locks up as a corner approaches. I missed the oncoming truck by inches and the bike was only a good frame and bodywork. The owner was devastated, he had just had it restored. A very sad indictment on 80's Ducatis

Bruce, How can you possibly think that naming, shaming and possible Loss of a job can be considered punishment? They are merely the normal response of the public to those who are found to be unethical or immoral. It should never be considered the punishment. Additionally he has no shame. To rape anyone is a crime if extreme physical and mental violence and must be treated as such. To rape a child and one you have power over is the most henious crime bar murder. If not many in his case would simply keep offending and not care what society thinks. The need for a priest to be celibate has absolutely no bearing at all nor the shame felt by a victim. They do not contribute to the crime at all to reduce his responsibility or the vile crimes he committed. I fear given your comments and previously in the thread, you are blaming the victims and make excuses for the perpetrator. You have repeatedly given the impression he is hard done by. That I find abhorrent.

Bruce there is a massive difference between a nuclear powered war ship coming for a short visit and building one at broken hill. The US has over 60 years of proven success in the field of navy nuclear power, but they are not perfect. The Russians have proved they can not be trusted with the tech and regularly have accidents that they refuse to admit. Putting a nuclear powerplant in Broken Hill would be a massive cost and water waste for the cooling needs. Besides the fact it is not needed there.

Labor seem to think they lost because they were too far from the LNP crap. No, because they were too much like the LNP. And too chicken to stand up. Now they are just yes men for the LNP

Try telling the poor kid whose life has been wrecked or the other child who took his own life from the torment. 2 and half years is pittance, he should have gotten 10 at least. You rape a child in a position of authority and the punishment should be harsh. Puritanical? How is that? Or is it because he is a high power in the Vatican? Or it was a boy not girl? Or do you think because it happened over 10 years ago, that standards were different?

Thankfully he has next to no chance. The real issue he will fight is the jury believed the truth of the poor bugger that was raped. The court can not review the jury. So no issue. Let him rot

Best for a car is a old Alfa V6 echoing of canyon walls.

So once again we are going on another adventure of confected sabre rattling in the middle east. We are sending a warship to keep open the Hormuz strait. For oil once again, to protect our oil supply they say. But only Boris and Donnie are joining, not the countries who export the oil or those that use it. Iran has been quite rightly annoyed at constant sanctions even when they do everything asked of them by the UN. They will only get more peeved and I expect the US will engineer a bay of Tomkin lie to start a war this time. And Scomo will happily jump and join in the killing. Quick, look over there, its a bad guy.....

Chief petty officer also did the same. Penis to testicles...... They measured all the way to Surrey. His ex wife's bedroom dresser.

Making special laws and special classes of offence with draconian penalties to stop dissent and protest is the realm of a police state of dictatorship. We already have sufficient laws to deal with this issues and it is merely a case of crushing any dissent. The same goes with special laws for farmers. It is already punishable with trespass. Special laws for special groups makes them above all others when it comes to law. So much for democracy and the blindness of justice. We are also actively trying to jail whistleblowers and journalists. Is this the new Stalin state? Australia, from convicts to a police state.

Oh and for those saying we only make a tiny bit of world emissions.... Absolute bull dust, we in fact export most of our emissions via coal sales. 7 % of emissions come from coal mined in Australia. And saying the world will just buy elsewhere is a false argument, we are actively trying to ensure the world sticks to coal.

Clean coal? No emissions? What planet is that on? There are no clean coal power plants at all, some pump a small amount in the ground, and at great cost. Australia's coal plants are some of the most polluting in the world. Burning coal pours out bulk chemical pollution like sulphur dioxide. Coal is not pure carbon. It is chemically impossible for it to be a clean energy source. No matter what process involved the pollution goes somewhere. And that is after the mass pollution involved in mining and transporting it. A simple understanding of science is all that's needed to see we are in deep shit.

I really doubt they would care about ensuring the public get the water. The atomic plant will take complete priority. Naturally they will claim it is to ensure safe operation, true. But you can bet that any water available will cost gold. You only have to look at the Murray- Darling system. Nothing matters not the life of the river, not the ecosystem s around it, not humans or even farmers. Unless you are big cotton with LNP mates.

Yep Manhattan project. Cost well over a $trillion dollars in today's terms. And that was for two bombs. And any way you look at it was mass murder of civilians and a war crime. But the victor is never punished. Claims it was necessary to end the war are bulls....t. They knew Japan would be done in a matter of a month anyway in its ability to fight. They already were hammered and unable to do anything but suicidal resistance on the last of its islands bar the main islands of Japan. and there they were starving and by that time poorly armed.

The Kokoda trail happened well before the bomb was ready to use. It followed on from the capture of Singapore. The yanks were pretty determined to get it done and dropped off to its intended victims and shrine to war crimes. I could be wrong though I wasn't there.

Spacey, Looking good. How much beer does the basket hold? Priorities are important

Guzzi electrics are made from spaghetti and the switch blocks from low quality Parmesan cheese. My mk 3 LeMans never had problems. I had replaced the switchgear with ally ones from a 70's Yamaha. Tough and reliable. The ignition went to a Dyna electronic unit. And high output coils . Awesome spark and reliable. Easy to start every time even bump starting. The crappy headlight replaced with a big round BMW one.

Yes, the orange one is the best ad for contraception.

Don't forget the impending recession about to strike the USA due mainly from Trumps policies. That will kill his election chances. He has already started blaming enemies like the fed reserve, economists, the democrats and naturally the fake news. Next he will say its sunspots.

Now I just consulted my own dickbrain and confirm it is far more intelligent and honest than UKIP. My little brain reminded me what UKIP really stands for.... U know Its Psychopathic.

Even the biggest spruikers of nuclear like Ziggy Switowski last week admitted that even with the optimist cost reductions of a next gen plant it is not economic. The fundamental costs of nuclear are immense and even the biggest corporations can't afford them without state subsidy and indemnity from any costs of a accident. And they use incredible amounts of energy to build and water we do not have spare. Even in countries with abundant water, the economics do not work for private industry to do it. Solar including costly batteries are now by far the cheapest and that is only getting cheaper. Same with other renewables and pumped hydro storage. Even with no concerns about the environment, it is economically a disaster. It will never happen unless a sociopathic government does it to spite its critics. And then it will be stopped well before a shovel gets near the site by a new government. The lead times are 20 years till full operation. We could spend 10% of the budget every year on nuclear for 20 years and only replace a fifth of our power needs. And not see any power for 20 years. And every plant would need to be near the sea and desalinate the water it needs. The whole nuclear debate is just a smokescreen to look like action. Just moving the deck chairs for a better view on the Titanic.

Even some of the later ones. I redid my Yamaha Tdm 850 when I converted it to street fighter and lost 40 kg. Transformed it onto a very mean wheelie machine. And stoppie beast. Superbike brakes on a adventure bike standard- got to love that. But the loom ended a touch too short and would sometimes cut the ignition. Mid corner. Not fun. Fixed it but lesson learnt.

Ah......we are doing the same as trump. The LNP have stacked the public service and any government body with their mates and donors. How else do we explain a bunch of climate denier business groups getting $463 million to " help" the barrier reef. Instead of giving it to the world leader and governments own agency. Yes that's right, to silence any dissent and get the actions they want.

Silly is not a word I would use when discussions about the LNP and global warming arise. Sociopathic at best. They know what they do and even know it costs more to do nothing. But they don't give a shite as long as their mates get ahead.